Andrew Ross Sorkin
Sorkin in 2012
Born	(1977-02-19)February 19, 1977 (age 48) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Cornell University (BS)
Occupations	Journalist television writer producer
Years active	1996–present
Known for	Too Big to Fail
Spouse	Pilar Jenny Queen ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	3

Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an Americanjournalist and author. He is a financialcolumnist forThe New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC'sSquawk Box. He is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service published byThe New York Times. He wrote the bestselling bookToo Big to Fail and co-produced amovie adaptation of the book for HBO Films. He is also a co-creator of theShowtime seriesBillions.^[1][2]

In October 2025, Sorkin published1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, a new history of theCrash based on hundreds of documents, many unpublished.^[3]

Sorkin was born inNew York City, the son of Joan Ross Sorkin, a playwright, and Laurence T. Sorkin, a partner at the law firmCahill Gordon & Reindel.^[4] Sorkin graduated fromScarsdale High School in 1995 and earned aBachelor of Science incommunication fromCornell University in 1999 where he was a member ofSigma Pi fraternity, Mu Chapter.^[5] He is not related to writerAaron Sorkin, who also grew up in Scarsdale.^[6] He is ofJewish descent.^[7][8]

Sorkin first joinedThe New York Times as a student intern during his senior year in high school. He also worked for the paper while he was in college, with 71 articles published before he graduated. He began by writing media and technology articles while assisting the advertising columnist, Stuart Elliott. Sorkin spent the summer of 1996 working forBusinessweek, before returning toThe New York Times. He moved toLondon for part of 1998. While there, he wrote about European business and technology forThe New York Times and then returned to Cornell to complete his studies. At Cornell, he was vice president of theSigma Pi fraternity.

Sorkin joinedThe New York Times full-time in 1999 as the newspaper's European mergers and acquisitions reporter, and was based in London. In 2000, Sorkin became the paper's chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, based in New York, a position he still holds. In 2001, Sorkin founded "DealBook," an online daily financial report published by theTimes. As Editor-at-Large of "DealBook," Sorkin writes a weekly column of the same name. Sorkin is also an assistant editor of business and finance news for the paper.^[9]

Sorkin has broken news of majormergers and acquisitions, including Chase's acquisition ofJ.P. Morgan andHewlett-Packard's acquisition ofCompaq. He also ledThe New York Times' coverage of the largest takeover in history,Vodafone's $183 billion hostile bid forMannesmann. Additionally, he broke the news ofIBM's sale of its PC business toLenovo,Boston Scientific's $25 billion acquisition ofGuidant andSymantec's $13 billion deal forVeritas Software, and reported on News Corp.'s acquisition ofDow Jones andThe Wall Street Journal. Sorkin has reported on theWall Streetfinancial crisis, including the collapse ofBear Stearns andLehman Brothers, and the government bailout of other majorinvestment banks andAIG. He has also written about the troubled Americanauto industry.

In 2007, Sorkin was one of the first journalists to identify and criticize "carried interest", a tax loophole for private equity firms and hedge funds.^[10] He first wrote about the topic in a column in March 2007, calling the tax treatment a "charade",^[11] and later wrote about it on the front page ofThe New York Times.^[12] He has written at least a half dozen articles critiquing the tax practice by private equity firms and advocated for the government to end the loophole.^[13]

In 2014, Sorkin wrote a series of columns criticizing American corporations for trying to lower their US tax bill by merging with smaller foreign companies in a transaction known as an "inversion".^[14] He also criticized the Wall Street banks that advised US companies to pursue such deals, describing the banks as "corporate co-conspirators".^[15] Sorkin called on the government to end the practice. On September 22, 2014, the Obama administration changed the tax laws to make it more difficult for US companies to merge to avoid taxes.^[16]

On thePRISM surveillance program andEdward Snowden situation, Sorkin said, "I would arrest him and now I'd almost arrestGlenn Greenwald, the journalist who seems to be out there, he wants to help him get to Ecuador."^[17] The next day, Sorkin apologized for the comment; Greenwald accepted, tweeting "Thank you: accepted & appreciated".^[18]

In October 2001, while a journalist atThe New York Times, Sorkin startedDealBook, a newsletter about deal-making and Wall Street.^[19]DealBook was one of the first financial news aggregation services on the Internet.^[19] In March 2006, Sorkin introduced a companion website published onThe New York Times, with updated news and original analysis throughout the day.^[20] In 2007,DealBook won aWebby Award for Best Business Blog^[21] and it won a SABEW award for overall excellence.^[22] In 2008, the site won anEPpy Award for Best Business Blog.^[23]

In July 2011, Sorkin became a co-anchor on CNBC'sSquawk Box in addition to his duties atThe New York Times. Sorkin has appeared onNBC'sToday show,Charlie Rose andThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrer onPBS, MSNBC'sHardball andMorning Joe, ABC'sGood Morning America,The Chris Matthews Show, HBO'sReal Time with Bill Maher, theBBC World Service, Comedy Central'sThe Daily Show andThe Colbert Report, and was a frequent guest host ofCNBC'sSquawk Box before joining the ensemble. Sorkin also hosted a weekly seven-part, half-hour PBS talk-show series calledIt's the Economy, NY, which focused on how the evolving economic crisis was affecting New Yorkers.^[24]

Along withBrian Koppelman andDavid Levien, Sorkin is a co-creator of theShowtime seriesBillions, an American television drama series starringPaul Giamatti andDamian Lewis.^[25] The series is loosely based on crusading federal prosecutor of financial crimes,Preet Bharara, the formerU.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.^[25][26] The show premiered in January 2016.

Sorkin made acameo appearance as himself in a 2023episode ofThe Simpsons parodyingSilicon Valley, where Sorkin interviewsMr. Burns and tech entrepreneur Persephone.^[27]

Sorkin's book on the Wall Street banking crisis,Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, was published byViking on October 20, 2009.^[28] It won the 2010Gerald Loeb Award for best business book of the year,^[29] was on the shortlist for the 2010Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlisted for the 2010Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and was onThe New York Times Best Seller list (non-fiction hardcover and paperback) for six months.

The book was adaptedas a movie byHBO Films and premiered on HBO on May 23, 2011. The film was directed byCurtis Hanson and the screenplay was written by Peter Gould. The cast includedWilliam Hurt asHank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary;Paul Giamatti asBen Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve;Billy Crudup asTimothy Geithner, the then-president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank;James Woods asRichard Fuld, the CEO ofLehman Brothers;Edward Asner asWarren Buffett, the CEO ofBerkshire Hathaway;Cynthia Nixon asMichele Davis, assistant secretary for public affairs at Treasury;Bill Pullman asJamie Dimon, CEO ofJPMorgan Chase; as well asTopher Grace asJim Wilkinson, Chief of Staff to the Treasury Secretary. Sorkin was a co-producer of the film and had a cameo appearance as a reporter.^[30]

Sorkin shared theGerald Loeb Award in 2005 for Deadline Writing^[31] and earned another for Business Book in 2010 for his bookToo Big to Fail.^[29] He also won aSociety of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2007, theWorld Economic Forum named him aYoung Global Leader.^[32] Also in 2007, SiliconAlleyInsider.com named Sorkin one of New York's "most influential scribes".^[33] In 2008,Vanity Fair magazine named Sorkin as one of 40 new members of the "Next Establishment",^[34] and he appeared on theUJA Federation's 2013 list of 40 under 40 top "movers and shakers" in theJewish community.^[7] He is a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations. In 2022, Sorkin won anEmmy Award for hisNew York Times interview withWeWork founderAdam Neumann.^[35]

In the penultimate episode ofBreaking Bad, called "Granite State", Sorkin is briefly referenced.^[36] He is said to have written an op-ed inThe New York Times accusing fictional entrepreneursGretchen and Elliott Schwartz of making donations to drug rehabilitation centers in the hopes of cleansing their company's image after theWalter White scandal.^[36] Sorkin later wrote the entire fictional article.^[36][37]

Sorkin married Pilar Jenny Queen on June 9, 2007.^[38]

Sorkin has acoloboma in his left eye that sometimes makes it appear as if he has twodifferent colored eyes.^[39]

• Sorkin, Andrew Ross (2009).Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves (First hardcover ed.). New York: Viking.ISBN 9780670021253.OCLC 317928209.
• Sorkin, Andrew Ross (2025).1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation (First hardcover ed.). New York: Viking.ISBN 9780593296967.OCLC 1540975842.

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